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Issue 11

Browse the content from the November/December 2025 issue of The Structural Engineer.

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Complete issue (November/December 2025)
All the articles from the November/December 2025 issue of The Structural Engineer.

Publish Date – 17 November 2025

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View from the CEO: Building the future: Transforming today for tomorrow's success
IStructE CEO, Yasmin Becker, shares the Institution's achievements in this transformative year and looks ahead to a new five-year strategy.

Publish Date – 17 November 2025

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Clarity amid catastrophe: the role of structural engineers in urban search and rescue
This article introduces the unique and challenging engineering role that structural engineers play within urban search and rescue teams. 

Publish Date – 17 November 2025

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CROSS Safety Report: Errors in steelwork connection design risk unsafe beam sagging moments
This month's report concerns design issues encountered when reviewing connection designs. The reporter discovered a moment connection between a universal beam and a universal column, with the moment connection being made to the web of the column.

Publish Date – 17 November 2025

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Mastering the risk conundrum
As risk management becomes an increasingly important part of structural engineers' work, IStructE Technical Director Patrick Hayes explores some of the complexities in applying its practice to the realm of building safety problems.

Publish Date – 17 November 2025

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Monitoring and supervision in construction. Part 2: Avoiding error
Cliff Smith of the Get it Right Initiative (GIRI) explains how the organisation is working to reduce error in the construction industry and offers some examples of approaches in practice.

Publish Date – 17 November 2025

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Structural Awards 2025: Awards special
Discover the winners at the Structural Awards 2025 and which project won the Supreme Award.

Publish Date – 17 November 2025

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Viewpoint: Snow loading: what next?
As the UK awaits a new National Annex to the second-generation EN 1991-1-3, Alastair Hughes and Stewart Macartney make a case for considering some important changes to the way snow is treated and argue for user-friendly, zoomable snow maps allowing local conditions to be factored into designs.

Publish Date – 17 November 2025

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Verulam (readers' letters – November/December 2025)
Letters this month include views on a recent IStructE publication, ethics in structural engineering and pay. 

Publish Date – 17 November 2025

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Diary dates (November/December 2025)
A round-up of events at Institution HQ and around the regional groups.

Publish Date – 17 November 2025

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Spotlight on Structures (November/December 2025)
Associate Editor, Chiara Bedon, has chosen a paper evaluating a space-saving seismic damper through performance tests, numerical simulation and finite element analysis as the Featured Article for Volume 78 of Structures.

Publish Date – 17 November 2025

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Library update: Upcoming changes to the E-library
The Institution's Library Manager, Laura Cooper, explains how this membership benefit is expected to change in early 2026 and what members need to do to continue to borrow titles.

Publish Date – 17 November 2025

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